Criminal Justice News

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Louisiana Man Sentenced in Virginia to 25 Years in Prison for Filming His Sexual Abuse of a Minor Girl

WASHINGTON – A Louisiana man was sentenced to 25 years in prison this
morning in Lynchburg, Va., federal court, after previously pleading
guilty to recording his sexual abuse of a 14-year-old girl and related
offenses, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the
Justice Department’s Criminal Division and the U.S. Attorney for the
Western District of Virginia Timothy J. Heaphy.

Gregory Thomas Miller, 57, of Deville, La., pleaded guilty on April 27,
2012, to a 10-count indictment charging him with seven counts of
production of child pornography, one count of transporting child
pornography, one count of possessing child pornography and one count of
marijuana possession. Today’s sentence was imposed by U.S. District
Judge Norman K. Moon.

According to court documents, Miller
repeatedly sexually abused a 14-year-old girl and filmed numerous
incidents of the abuse during a several month period in 2008. In
October 2010, the defendant’s car was stopped by National Park Service
(NPS) rangers at a DUI checkpoint in Virginia. The defendant was in the
car with the girl he had abused. NPS Rangers quickly determined that a
missing persons/runaway report for her had been recorded with the
National Crime Information Center.

A search of the car revealed, among other things, a laptop computer, a
digital camera and marijuana. Forensic examination of the laptop
revealed video clips of the 2008 abuse.

In addition to the prison term, Judge Moon sentenced Miller to serve a
lifetime of supervised release. Miller will also be required to
register as a sex offender.

This case was investigated by the NPS and the FBI, and prosecuted by
Assistant U.S. Attorney Nancy S. Healey and Trial Attorney Darcy Katzin
of the Department of Justice Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and
Obscenity Section.